As part of the change, Dreamlife will immediately trim 9 positions from its 21-person staff and make additional personnel assessments upon the integration of Discovery Toys into its operations if the acquisition is completed. Dreamlife is in the process of reviewing and establishing partnerships with other direct selling companies and related businesses that can benefit from the content and inspirational tools at Dreamlife.

TooMuchToDo is the opposite of NotEnoughTime. When you have too much to do, you can begin to deal with the problem. You can prioritize. You can reduce the size of tasks. You can delegate. When you don't have enough time, you're stuck.

if x:
    good_thing()

if not x:
    bad_thing()

if x:
   good_thing()
else:
   bad_thing()

while (not self.done) and (self.is_working):
   self.do_something()
   if self.made_progress:
       self.feel_good()
   else:
       self.feel_bad()
   self.evaluate_feedback()
   self.decide_what_to_do_next()

while not self.decided:
    opt = self.get_possible_option()
    likely_result = self.future_pace(opt)
    if likely_result == MAKE_PROGRESS:
        self.move_towards(opt)
        self.decided = true
    else:
        self.move_away_from(opt)
self.act()

The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen.
 
"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."
 
One student replied, "You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."
 
This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed immediately. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case...

1. It's easier to concentrate, because mail doesn't interrupt me every ten minutes.
2. There's actually time to answer the emails. I don't find myself thinking I'll answer that later. I'm busy now.. I just deal with each one.. So: no email buildup!

... The implication of this discovery is that neurons (brain cells) can at least be partly replaced. The old dogma held that the brain inevitably shrinks and progressively atrophies as we age. Now this dismal view can be discarded in favor of a new search for ways to help the brain regenerate and preserve its youthful powers.

Crittenden tells the story of a public employee who, in the '70s, was assigned to paint fire hydrants every day in Elmira, New York. The man's supervisor came to Crittenden complaining that the man took an entire day to paint one fire hydrant. Crittenden told the supervisor: "Here's what you do. At the end of the day ask him to submit a three-by-five inch index card to you with nothing on it but the number of fire hydrants he painted. And no matter how many hydrants he paints, even if it's only half a hydrant, always say the same thing: 'That's fantastic. See you tomorrow.' And post the cards where he can see them."
 
Within a week the number on the index card went up to 5, then 7, then 12, then 14. Eventually the worker was taking a truck and buckets of paint home at night so he could head straight from his driveway to the nearest unpainted fire hydrant.

• A Detroit News article talks about altered behavior when transplanting brain cells (and also points out that the flatworm tormentor was a Unabomber target.. weird)
• A Feed Magazine article mentions a couple memory-transfer experiments in the context of a general "how does memory work?" article
• There's also a more technical article that I just don't have the energy to read at the moment.

A Global Ideas Bank for socially innovative non-technological ideas and projects, with £1,000 UK sterling awards annually for the best ideas or projects submitted.

1. The Teddy Bear that Knows Your Name
2. The Lawn that Never Needs Mowing
3. The Makeup that Changes Your Identity
4. The Car that Can't Crash
5. The Jet that Sees the Runway
6. The Train You're Never Late For
7. The Mind that Moves Objects
8. The Mall Where Every Price is Negotiable
9. The Weatherman Who is Always Right
10. The Scanner that will Run your Kitchen
11. The Tongue with Perfect Taste
12. The Gun that Won't Kill Anybody
13. The Detective that Every Jury Believes
14. The Surveillance Camera that Picks Out the Bad Guys
15. The Suit that Makes you Feel as Good as Prozac (???)
16. The Daytrader that Puts your Mind at Ease
17. The Code that Can't be Broken
18. The Only Book You'll Ever Need to Read
19. The Document that Can't be Forged
20. The Genetic Report that will Tell You if Your Embryo Will Get Prostate Cancer
21. The Bathroom Where you can Give Yourself a Daily Brain Scan
22. The Severed Limb that Regrows Itself
23. The Coach who will put you in the Zone
24. The Watch that is your Lifeline to the World
25. The Phone that puts New York in Montana
26. The Dead Celebrity that Comes Back to Life
27. The Blind Date who is your Destiny
28. The Company where Everybody's a Temp
29. The Elevator you Never have to Wait for
30. The French Fry that will Save your Life
31. The Doctor that Floats in your Bloodstream
32. The Genius who Sticks Around Forever

I tested the blindspot idea by applying it to some profound mysteries in current physics, and answers came rolling out! The sums remain the same, but the underlying assumptions are different. This is all about awareness, so I applied the new physical model to the question of what consciousness is, and got an answer quite different to anything suggested to date. Bundle it all up, and I got a concrete picture of how the physical processes in the universe - including consciousness - fit together, and how they look from our point of view.
 
Then things got very Indiana Jones.

Our brains learned to cope with life as a farmer by producing more dopamine. Some theories suggest that dopeamine developed as a survival technique for seige like situations. If a monkey is sitting in a tree with a lion prowling around below then being patience is essential for survival. Dopamine calms down the monkey and allows him to out-wait the lion. In todays society we spend a lot of time in waiting situations. In fact, it would be more accurate to say that we spend almost all our time in waiting situations. Our dopamine levels are much higher than nature intended.
 
The increased levels of dopamine enabled humanity to function efficiently as farmers, but this came at a cost. High levels of dopamine significantly impairs the minds ability to think creatively. Worse yet, the dopamine is highly addictive. Recent research shows that almost by definition, addictive drugs are ones that raise dopamine levels. This explains why people object so strongly to having their routine distrurbed. It triggers exactly the same resentment that you observe in junkies when they are denied their fix. The more ritual dependent people become, the more easily they become irritated by upsets to their routine. In extreme cases people actually become angry when presented with a novel idea. They ridicule the person presenting the idea, but provide no arguments saying what is wrong with it.

The spark for Chuck Palahniuk's novel, Fight Club, came when the author got beaten up on holiday. "The other people who were camping near us wanted to drink and party all night long, and I tried to get them to shut up one night, and they literally beat the crap out of me. I went back to work just so bashed, and horrible looking. People didn't ask me what had happened. I think they were afraid of the answer. I realised that if you looked bad enough, people would not want to know what you did in your spare time. They don't want to know the bad things about you. And the key was to look so bad that no one would ever, ever ask. And that was the idea behind Fight Club."

• Get in shape.. Complete the body for life program.
• Find a new place to live, closer to Atlanta.
• Get Zike up and running (eg, ZikeShop, BlogDrive, Ransacker, and our signup and administration systems)
• Get linkwatcher working with personalization, automated blog submissions, etc.
• Use the Zike software to get Manifestation.com working.
• Get Java 2 certified (Architect and/or Programmer).
• Publish a Flash animation on Animation Express
• Be able to play at least two songs on the piano
• Understand enough spanish to hold a converstation or read a spanish popular novel.
• Have at least ten thousand dollars in the bank (after taxes), and a regular paycheck coming in (preferably from Zike!)

We are not big fans of those The Complete Idiot's... and the ...for Dummies books. We're more like geniots than idiots or dummies. But when it comes to a no-nonsense, highly-entertaining and informative overview of Eastern Philosophy, we have to say it, go buy this book.

This is the NLP wiki. You can edit and extend this website, but please be respectful of other people's comments. If this is your first time here, you might want to read HowToUseWiki. --MichalWallace

At the big foundations they studied, the average grant was for $40,000 and lasted just a year. "At that rate," says Lathram, "the nonprofits have no way to get their act together--they spend 65% of their time fundraising."

The Omidyars began putting together their foundation last June, and it doesn't look like its big brethren. It has a full-time staff of just two, relying on consultants and the organizations it funds to do much of the bureaucratic work. Most foundations also have layers of case officers. At Omidyar's, a specialist in due diligence or information systems might work in several different fields. There is no organizational chart, but there is a strong technological underpinning, including an Intranet where charities can exchange methods.

As with so many others, Dreamlife Inc. is best appreciated not as a real business so much as a revenue-free enterprise consisting of dozens of people rushing about madly, generating millions in spending to no apparent purpose or result—all of it being paid for, in the end, by gullible investors ready to plunk down their money simply because some grinning celebrity with a lantern jaw profile is the face on the hustle.

Nap timing. Because of ups and downs in your circadian rhythms, certain times are better than others for napping. During the day, the best napping window is in the afternoon, from about 1 to 5 p.m. Conversely, it may be difficult to nap between 7 and 9 p.m. because human alertness tends to rise in the evening. (These windows may shift after you change your wake-up time.)
 
Nap length. Sleep experts agree that naps should either be relatively short (20 to 30 minutes) or very long (about 90 minutes). These recommended lengths are designed to minimize sleep inertia — the temporary grogginess and disorientation people often experience when they wake up from deep sleep.

... The freshman year was only a few weeks old when is Development of Civilization professor, Carroll Quigley, inspired him to make his days even longer. In a lecture on great men, Quigley noted that many of them required less sleep than other mortals. The greatest leaders, he said, often slept no more than five hours and refreshed themselves during the day with prief catnaps. Clinton returned to the dorm room after that morning lecture and immediately set his alarm clock for a twenty-minute nap. And he began sleeping five hours a night, the big clock resounding with the urgency of his mission.

What is a Futurist?
 
A Futurist is a person who thinks about the future in a systematic way. A Futurist does not predict the future. Noone can predict the future. A Futurist instead anticipates a range of likely futures, helps people envision the futures they prefer, and then helps those people prepare to create those futures they want for themselves.

Your items seem to concentrate on Christianity. Don't you cover other religions?
 
Yes, quite definitely!
 
Since this is a weblog, we cover any content on the web we can find that applies to religious futures. The World Wide Web, for better or worse, is predominantly American and written in English. This means English-language Christian sources abound and it is harder to find sources that bring up-to-date news and commentary on other religions. We have tried to seek out some good sources, but if you know of some links to English-language web pages that might improve our coverage of Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, and other faiths, please let us know about them.

I was going to make sure that this chapter was so informative, so readable, and so wonderful that if you were reading it in a bookstore, you'd buy the book, or, if you were reading it in a library, you'd check it out, or, if you were reading it at home, you'd decide, "Boy, I'm certainly going to enjoy reading this book!" but I decided to watch this movie on TV last night, and I was going to work on the chapter afterward, but then I went out for ice cream, and I was tired, and decided to start fresh in the morning, but then I slept late, and then I went out for breakfast and took a drive past an aquarium and decided to stop in, then I went for lunch, and then thought I'd take a nap and start fresh in the evening, but then I started watching a documentary on TV, then, of course, it was time for dinner, then I was invited to the movies, and I don't want to be rude to my friends, and besides I sort-of wanted to see the movie anyway, then I was going to go right back and work on this chapter, but then I remembered how good the ice cream was the night before . . .

The work ethic is a cultural norm that advocates being personally accountable and responsible for the work that one does and is based on a belief that work has intrinsic value. The term is often applied to characteristics of people, both at work and at play. In sports, for example, work ethic is frequently mentioned as a characteristic of good players. Regardless of the context, work ethic is usually associated with people who work hard and do a good job.

Technology that could produce everything we want with virtually no labor would, upon its introduction, immediately cause mass layoffs of workers, as businesses would adopt the technology in their own manufacturing systems. Intense legal battles over patent rights and monopoly control would pour immense riches into what has already become the High Priest Class of our society, the lawyers. Almost everyone else would join the ranks of the unemployed. The technology that could easily feed the world would probably result in mass starvation. The competitive system can produce the tools we need to create a future of freedom and enlightenment, but unless the system evolves, it will work against our using those tools to the benefit of humanity.

In our last newsletter, I reported on a PWA, Chris D. of Cloverdale, IN who, based on his lab numbers, thought the end was near in September, 1996. His HIV viral load was over 600,000, CD4 count was 10 and CD8 at 300. He prepaid his funeral and decided to take his last vacation in the jungles of South America with an Indian tribe in the Republic of Surinam. Around October 14, 1996, he began eating daily a dish of cooked coconut which was prepared by the local Indians. By Dec. 27th, 1996, a mere 2 and 1/2 months later, his viral load was at non-detectable levels and he had gained 32 lbs and was feeling great. Since he continued the cooked coconut for breakfast every day after he returned, both he and I agreed that something in the coconut must have inactivated the AIDS virus(s) (HIV and HHV-6A). In last my phone conversation with him in January, 1997, Chris indicated that he planned to return soon to Surinam and would be there for a few months. I did not hear from him again until April 28th, 1997

Can any automobile give you this scenario? From your garage to your destination, the M400 Skycar cruises comfortably at 350+ MPH at 15 miles per gallon. No traffic, no red lights, no speeding tickets. Just quiet direct transportation from point A to point B in a fraction of the time. Three dimensional mobility for the same price as two dimensional mobility.

MIT CogNet's services include a searchable, full-text library with a growing collection of books, journals, and reference works; an academic almanac of cognitive science programs; HotScience editorials by scientists on groundbreaking or controversial aspects of new research; job listings; CV and bibliography utilities; virtual poster sessions; threaded discussion groups; a seminar manager with information about current seminars and lecture series at participating academic institutions; community member profiles; and more.

"Are they going to patent air next?" said John Segrich, an analyst with CIBC World Markets, who follows Amazon.com. "I would certainly think that this will be quickly challenged."

Boustrophedon is a reading- / writing- style that alternates direction every line. It was originally created by the ancient Greeks. Once one gets good at reading the 'backwards' text, reading (and writing) can go much faster, as the eye (or hand) does not have to whip back to the margin when the end of a line is reached. One simply goes down a line and continues in the opposite direction.

I also thought about a painful but powerful lesson I had learned from my work at NASA. As most people know, we experienced a tremendous setback in 1986 when a space shuttle, ironically named “Challenger,” exploded just minutes after lift off. We lost seven brave astronauts that day, and we felt as if a part of each and every one of us died as well.
 
There were many who wanted the entire space shuttle program aborted, but we never considered giving up. That simply was not an option. The NASA team pulled together like never before, and we vowed to move forward. And we did. We worked even harder and developed better and safer systems. As painful as that tragedy was, it helped refocus everyone at NASA and made the entire program safer. Over the 14 years that have passed since the Challenger tragedy, we have not experienced the loss of a single life.

Have you ever been driving on an interstate highway when traffic suddenly slows to a crawl? You inch along for many minutes while waiting to see the accident which must have caused the jam. At the same time you also curse the "rubberneckers" who are causing the whole problem. But then all the cars ahead of you take off at high speed. The jam is over, but no accident, no police cars, nothing. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT! A traffic jam with no cause? In the rear-view mirror you see all the poor saps behind you still stuck in the jam. But why? If all those people could just speed up at the same time, the whole traffic jam would evaporate. Why don't they ever do that? What caused the mysterious slowdown in the first place?

The software allows you to explore and structure your ideas in a way that fits your own natural thinking process, and it gives you guidance on how to maximize your creativity. The programs lead you through simple procedures that draw out your own natural genius and help you collect and synthesize your ideas — providing an interactive "brainstorming" session on a computer. You are presented with a question and the answer is started for you. All you need to do is fill in the blanks. Inspiring quotations from the geniuses help to stimulate your own imagination and navigate your creative process.

I'm a fisherman by trade. When it comes time for me to put food on the table for my family, well, that means fish. But I don't catch fish the same way these namby-pamby "modern" "fishermen" do, with their "trawlers" and fancy "nets". I catch fish the same way my pappy and grand-pappy did-- by diving from a hot-air balloon into deep water armed only with a whoopee cushion and a cudgel. This is far superior to newfangled "fishing" techniques because...

I advised you that our policy is that such devices making claims for lay use relating to hair loss is an objectionable claim that will result in the product being considered a misbranded device when sold for lay use.

No one is certain yet just how topical minoxidil works to promote hair growth. "One theory is that it dilates the blood vessels, so it may stimulate nourishment of follicles," says Bihova. Alternatively, Rogaine may convert tiny hair follicles that produce peach fuzz into large hair follicles that produce normal-size hairs. Again, no one knows for sure.

I slept at work again last night; two and a half hours curled up in a quilt underneath my desk, from 11am to 1:30pm or so. That was when I woke up with a start, realizing that I was late for a meeting we were scheduled to have to argue about colormaps and dithering, and how we should deal with all the nefarious 8-bit color management issues. But it was no big deal, we just had the meeting later. It's hard for someone to hold it against you when you miss a meeting because you've been at work so long that you've passed out from exhaustion.

The marketroids had all kinds of silly suggestions like Cyber this and Power that and blah-blah Ware. Then someone said something about crushing NCSA Mosaic, and I blurted out ``Mozilla!'' Everyone seemed to like that, so I think that might end up being the official name of the browser.

I've just noticed that there's still purple ink on the inside of my right wrist spelling the word VOID: the hand-stamp from a concert that I went to last week. I left work, went to the show, and came back to work immediately afterwards. I've been here since.

When I complained to my friend who just finished law school, he said that I was overeducated and since I have a masters, I'll probably be booted from every jury I get called to. He also said that most people that go to jury duty are actually as dumb as we were treated (he mentioned the old joke about how anyone that's not smart enough to get out of jury duty deserves to go) and the lowest common denominator is what they have to stick to.

Juror: "I don't get paid for being here."
Judge: "No? Who's your employer?"
Juror: "No one, I'm unemployed."

There would be:
 
57 Asians
21 Europeans
14 from the Western Hemisphere, both North and South America
8 Africans

Through all the years of struggling with my weight, the fad diets, the tedious and depressing history most fat people share, I had never, even once, approached controlling my weight the way I'd work on any other problem: a malfunctioning circuit, a buggy program, an ineffective department in my company.
 
As an engineer, I was trained to solve problems. As a software developer, I designed tools to help others solve their problems. As a businessman I survived and succeeded by managing problems. And yet, all that time, I hadn't looked at my own health as something to be investigated, managed, and eventually solved in the same way. I decided to do just that.

...and poor nutrition. There is one, simple, unavoidable fact of dieting. To lose weight you have to eat less food than your body needs. Only by doing so can you cause your body to burn its reserves of fat and thereby shed excess weight. If nutrition is about meeting your body's needs, losing weight involves deliberately shortchanging those needs--in a word, starving. This isn't a pleasant or inherently healthy process, but it's better than carrying around all that extra weight. You'll see how to reduce your food intake intelligently, so you don't end up with scurvy or something else unpleasant or embarrassing.

You don't exercise to lose weight (although it certainly helps). You exercise because you'll live longer and you'll feel better.

• First stop: the national institutes of health have a paper called Methods for Voluntary Weight Loss and Control
• Also from the NIH, a tour of the digestive system
• A site about fasting
• don't miss: beyond vegetarianism, "transcending outdated dogmas"
• One of the few references the search engines are finding on "natural hygene", the diet described in Unlimited Power and Fit for Life
• An interview with a breatharian and other outlandish notions from Just Eat an Apple(okay, now I'm the skeptic.. but... sheesh.. you should read some of this stuff)
• The oh-so-stupid but oh-so-overhyped Atkins Diet.. (I've lived with people who've been on it.. it's scary)
• really informative piece on the caloric concept of weight control

• The American Natural Hygiene society
• A natural hygiene reading list
• A Natural Hygiene FAQ from a skeptic (who seems to be talking about a much stricter system than Robbins or the Diamonds describe)

Thanks to a combination of talk-radio discussion and an e-mail campaign spearheaded by the state Libertarian Party, the Capitol found itself, almost literally, under siege. Thousands of cars circled Capitol Hill, bearing down on their horns and tying up traffic throughout downtown. Hundreds of protesters occupied the Legislative Plaza, with many barging into the capitol building itself carrying signs and -- in one case -- a can of tar and a feather pillow.

Without talk radio and the Internet, Tennessee would probably have an income tax now. The major media were almost all pro-tax, and anti-tax groups got little publicity, most of it negative and condescending. Used to the old way of doing things, state politicians (many of whom barely use e-mail) missed the groundswell of opposition until it was too late. Tax opponents, meanwhile, simply bypassed the traditional gatekeepers in the media and took their case directly to the people. The people responded.

                    (B)                      (D)
               express my views. -------- post the article
             /                            on the bulletin 
           /                              board. |
     (A)                                         |  /|
both of us to be                                 |/  |
happy at work.                                       |
           \                                         |
             \      (C)                      (D')    |
               restrict the content ----- remove the article
               of the bulletin board.     from the bulletin
                                          board.

"We find it much more profitable to have them read a few hundred thousand pages and answer our questions for several years, rather than just tell them what’s really important in a few minutes."

The mechanism of the elenchus is straightforward. It works by probing each response of an interlocutor, examining whether the entire set of beliefs held by a person is mutually consistent. Socrates almost always succeeds in eliciting from a person some belief that entails the opposite of a belief proffered earlier, and thereby leads the respondent into contradiction.

18) What if we were aliens with only two fingers? How many numerals might we have?

Of course, you will notice these questions are very specific, and as logically leading as possible. That is part of the point of the method. Not just any question will do, particularly not broad, very open ended questions, like "What is arithmetic?" or "How would you design an arithmetic with only two numbers?" (or if you are trying to teach them about why tall trees do not fall over when the wind blows "what is a tree?"). Students have nothing in particular to focus on when you ask such questions, and few come up with any sort of interesting answer.

From corrupt therapists to unethical researchers to secretive government agencies, Svengalis have victimized the unsuspecting and the imprudent. SECRET, DON’T TELL is a good read about this too-long closed subject, exposing the darker side of hypnotism throughout history - a world where real-life Svengalis abuse their hapless Trilbys.
 
Born from the author’s own painful experience with unethical hypnosis, SECRET, DON’T TELL is the product of over a decade of interviews and diligent scholarly research. It is a true encyclopedia in the field of hypnosis and modern mind-control technologies, indispensable for anyone interested in trance phenomena, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, counseling, or related fields of law.
 
Yet Carla Emery’s writing is far from stuffy or academic. This book is intensely readable, with the pace of an excellent suspense novel. It is both compelling and terrifying - and every word is true.

In the event of relationship advancement requiring additional personal revelation, this form can be used to alleviate the stress of putting the truth into painful words. Check all that apply or all that you are prepared to reveal at this juncture.

"[Israeli Intelligence] said, ‘Wait a minute. We have here a preconception problem. We’re analyzing everything logically. But some of our enemies are not logical. So whatever we do in terms of predicting what they are doing is worthless.’ I said, ‘No, what we call irrational behavior is simply the person behaving according to another set of assumptions. But within that he is very logical.’ So we took as an experiment the most illogical person you can imagine—Saddam Hussein—and we built the future scenario of his actions. And he was behaving so logically that we knew what he was doing before he did. Many times we claim that people are behaving irrationally because we put them into a conflict and we are looking at only one side of the conflict. So of course it looks to us as though they are behaving irrationally."

Feature Number Twelve. We have a name, and a coherent look. Art movements that aren't designed in cold blood have a problem, which is that moron critics name them. That's how you get stuck with a name like the "Fauves." We've already got a name. We're Viridian Greens, the Viridian movement.
 
That's because we're green, but there's something electrical and unnatural about our tinge of green. We're an art movement that looks like a mailing list, an ad campaign, a design team, an oppo research organization, a laboratory, and, perhaps most of all, we resemble a small feudal theocracy ruled with an iron hand by a Pope-Emperor. We have our own logo -- or we will. We have our own font and our own typography. And we have an entire list of favorite Viridian-approved tie-in products: T-shirts, chrome stickers, socks, solar panels, ultrasonic sterilizers, and so on.... We're going to be spending a lot of time picking bits and pieces out of the background clutter, and assembling them, and placing our stamp of ideological approval upon them. The future is already here. It just hasn't been assembled as a cultural ensemble.

A little past 9 p.m., Mark let my thumb piggyback on his finger as he tapped the novel's final period. We'd talked about going to the local bar and downing enough tequila to drown ourselves. But our constitutions were too wobbly to mess with anything that had a worm at the bottom. We went out for a mellow meal of celebratory sushi.
 
"Do you realize, lad, that these days of youthful energy will never happen again for us?" I asked, raising my water glass.
 
"I fucking hope not."

I put this section in here for your own self-defense. Ross Jeffries is an idiot, but some of the stuff that he says in the following references has a distinct "ring of truth" about how people may manipulate you. Not everyone is evil, but watch for these patterns.

TechnoSphere is a 3D model world inhabited by artificial lifeforms created by WWW users. There are thousands of creatures in the world all competing to survive. They eat, fight, mate and create offspring which evolve and adapt to their environment. When you make a creature it will email you to let you know what it has been getting up to in its world. Using the creature tools you can find out how your creature is surviving, what it is doing at any time, and where it is in the terrain.

The game is very unpolished. What seems like hundreds of files are dumped in its main directory. The interface is crude: you use the mouse to move your head around, the mouse buttons to move forward and back, and the space bar to open doors. There are no puzzles to be solved. All you do is move through a mansion, collection jack o'lanterns and avoiding monsters. And yet it's great to see what three people can do in four days.

The American law by which we turn our clock forward in the spring and back in the fall is known as the Uniform Time Act of 1966. The law does not require that anyone observe Daylight Saving Time; all the law says is that if we are going to observe Daylight Saving Time, it must be done uniformly.
...
By 1966, some 100 million Americans were observing Daylight Saving Time through their own local laws and customs. Congress decided to step in end the confusion and establish one pattern across the country.
...
It is Daylight Saving (singular) Time, NOT Daylight SavingS Time. We are saving daylight, so it is singular and not plural.

    9,827,086,456 Energy Production
    9,317,405,789 Energy Consumption
    3,593,145,269 Oil Consumption 
    2,980,896,657 Coal Consumption
2,259,766,795,126 Solar Energy Striking Earth

• restaurant worker huh?
• teacher
• researcher
• project manager yeaaaah, buddy
• programmer, database developer, database analyst big shock there
• professor that's DOCTOR Michal to you

Academic: BSc/BEng
A suburban indoor job working in a small group, which may offer dreadful pay to people with appropriate qualifications.
An ENFJ who had completed a 1 year tertiary course, found this job extremely satisfying (at its best) to generally satisfying (at its worst).

• humanrights.about.com - this looks especially promising.
• The UN's WomenWatch, including the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
• The UN also has a report on women and violence.
• I'm not sure where Kurdistan actually is, but I worked with some Kurdish kids for a couple weeks when I taught reading. The girls barely talked, if I recall. Anyway, there's a Kurdistan Women Union.
• The Center for Women Policy Studies is US-centric but "multi-cultural".
• Also US-centric: the Women's Freedom Network
• Mother Jones on Women and Fundamentalist Islam (multipage, with photos)
• The Dr. Homa Darabi foundation:

  There are two types of violence perpetrated against women. There is the violence perpetrated by husbands, boyfriends, lovers of female victims and then there is the violence perpetrated against women by parents (including female babies and children), brothers, uncles, in-laws, priests, mullah's, witch doctors, religious vigilantes, and government officials, etc. The Dr. Homa Darabi Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, founded in 1994, has set its sight mainly and exclusively on the latter type of violence. Our mission is to raise public awareness about the violence afflicted upon women and children all over the world in the name of God, religion, culture, family values, and the preservation of the society, and to promote activism for change.

• Equality Now

Science-fiction fans have developed an excellent toolkit of techniques for running effective conventions and shows on a shoestring budget with all-volunteer staff. This document lays out some of the techniques for the use of people running Linux and open-source gatherings.

• Eaiea is designed to allow musical instruments the opportunity to speak words through combinations of pitches, and also to let singers speak two languages simultaneously.
• Dutton's Speedwords took the most common words in english and made them one to three characters long. It works as shorthand as well as an auxilary language.
• Earth Minimal packs the whole language into about 200 words. It's designed to get points across, not to be extremely expressive. (The website is a little hard to navigate, but otherwise really well done)
• Laadan is a language that a female author created for a science fiction novel. The idea is that women are fundamentally different from men, and Laadan is therefore a language designed to express perceptions that women have but men (allegedly) do not. Apparently, this is actually in use.
• AllNoun is an alternative grammar for english that uses, well, all nouns.
• The Elephant's Memory is a visual language for children. Don't miss the example sentences
• Nova was inspired by Robert Heinlien. It's a language for geniuses - there's lots of very short sounds, so users can think rapidly.

Amazon's suit against Barnesandnoble.com comes at a time when an increasing number of e-commerce companies are trying to defend their online positions by patenting not just their technologies but also their business plans.
 
Just last week, Priceline.com filed suit against Microsoft because the software giant recently introduced a similar "name your price" service on its Expedia travel site. Priceline maintains it invested years of time and money to develop a patented business model built around its technologies that allow consumers to "name their price" for products and services.

• the loglan page
• the lojban page

Vizka la Spat. (See Spot.)
Vizka lepo la Spat, prano. (See Spot run.)
Prano, hoi Spat. I prano. (Run, Spot! Run!)

"It would take four very bright first-generation engineers a full year to program this site," Guha estimated. "But because we've done it before, we can write most of the code in six weeks."

The evolution of the Comando Vermelho, stems from the dictatorship and political repression installed in Brazil after 1964. In this period, the government mixed political prisoners - intellectuals and members of guerilla groups - with common prisoners. From this association within the Caldron the C.V. was created, comprised of criminals who had gained not only a political perspective of social conditions that foster crime but also the knowledge of how to use the power of an organization for their advantage. Today, the C.V. group is estimated at more than two thousand members.

There's one more thing that comes with the Enforma System, a booklet. Remember the infomercial says these pills let you lose weight without exercise, while eating anything you want. So what's in the booklet? Lots of reminders to get plenty of exercise and menus for a very low-fat diet. I'll hang onto the booklet. But these pills - the Fat Trapper and Exercise in a Bottle- are going into the trash!

Take a wooden matchstick and slice a thin sliver from one side. Then cut the remaining stick in two, lengthwise. Make sure you leave a little of the red tip intact for effect. Discard one half.

The Ogle U.S. Patent, #4,177,779, has this statement "I have been able to obtain extremely high gas mileages with the system of the present invention installed on a V-8 engine of a conventional 1971 American made automobile. In fact, mileage rates in excess of one hundred miles per gallon have been achieved with the present invention." According to the Argosy article, a Shell Oil Co. representative asked Ogle what he would do if someone offered him $25 Million for the system. Ogle responded "I would not be interested" He later said, "I've always wanted to be rich, and I suspect I will be when this system gets into distribution. But I'm not going to have my system bought up and put on the shelf. I'm going to see this thing through--that I promise." According to an article in The Washington Post Parade Magazine, March 4, 1984, Tom Ogle died of a drug and alcohol overdose in 1981. Other articles concerning Tom Ogle can be found in the El Paso Journal, January 16, 1980, and also, The Hamilton Spectator, June 24, 1978.

What do you think of the rest of the free energy movement? I doubt free energy is possible. I think I could be convinced by proof. I have no problem with the hundreds of independent people across the country working on rather far fetched inventions as long as they don't take in a huge sum of investor dollars. I actually get most of my web traffic funneled in from pro-free energy sites who see me as providing a fraud filtering service with in the free energy community.

"Hold up! Spare me that nonsense. [Alternating Current is] dangerous. We're set up for direct current in America. People like it, and it's all I'll ever fool with."
 
Nonetheless Edison offered him a job, promising Tesla fifty thousand dollars if Tesla could redesign Edison's breakdown-prone DC generator designs. Tesla agreed and worked for the better part of a year redesigning the dynamos, also adding new automatic controls of Tesla's design. The new generator designs were a vast improvement over Edison's originals. Upon completing the job Tesla went to Edison to collect the $50,000 promised for the task.
 
"Tesla," Edison replied, "you don't understand our American humor." And Tesla was never paid.

Acronymic word origins are often posited for words like fuck (Fornication Under Consent of the King) and posh (Port Out; Starboard Home). This etymology of 'fuck' is incorrect; it instead derives from a Germanic word. This etymology of 'posh' is probably incorrect, but its origin is somewhat in doubt.
...
Although no pre-twentieth century examples of acronymic word origins exist, the concept of the acronym, while rare, was not unknown in earlier times. Occasionally, phrases would be made where the first letters of each word in the phrase spelled out an existing word.

Non-profits can often do many of the same things that regular businesses do; they just get to do it without paying taxes, and the money goes toward the organization's mission and not the owners' return on investment.

I like to sit outside when I write, partly because there are bugs and birds and rocks around that may suggest an idea. I never know what will trigger a workable idea, so my writing schedule varies a great deal. Sometimes I can write several strips in an afternoon; sometimes I can't write anything at all. I never know if another hour sitting there will be wasted time or the most productive hour of the day.

The Meta-model can serve as a tool to play language games: Once you know what are the verbs and nouns in a language, the meta-model offers you a tool to play with the language without having a lot of actual understanding of what persons are saying. (Another hint from the editor: for those familiar to Artificial intelligence, in the 60s a computer program called Eliza was developed. This program simulated a Rogerian Therapist (only asking questions reflecting upon what the person was saying) and actually managed a lot of "patients" into being tricked that there was a "real therapist out there.)

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One woman was beaten to DEATH by an angry mob of fundamentalists for accidentally exposing her arm while she was driving. The government of Afghanistan is waging a war upon women. The situation is getting so bad that one person in an editorial of the Times compared the treatment of women there to the treatment of Jews in pre-Holocaust Poland. Since the Taliban took power in 1996, women have had to wear burqua and have been beaten and stoned in public for not having the proper attire, even if this means simply not having the mesh covering in front of theireyes. Another was stoned to death for trying to leave the country with a man that was not a relative. Women are not allowed to work or even go out in public without a male relative; professional women such as professors, translators, doctors, lawyers, artists and writers have been forced from their jobs and stuffed into their homes, so that depression is becoming so widespread that it has reached emergency levels. There is no way in such an extreme Islamic society to know the suicide rate with certainty, but relief workers are estimating that the suicide rate among women, who cannot find proper medication and treatment for severe depression and would rather take their lives than live in such conditions, has increased significantly.

Homes where a woman is present must have their windows painted so that she can never be seen by outsiders. They must wear silent shoes so that they are never heard. Women live in fear of their lives for the slightest misbehaviour. Because they cannot work, those without male relatives or husbands are either starving to death or begging on the street, even if they hold Ph.D.'s. There are almost no medical facilities available for women, and relief workers, in protest, have mostly left the country, taking medicine and psychologists and other things necessary to treat the sky-rocketing level of depression among women. At one of the rare hospitals for women, a reporter found still, nearly lifeless bodies lying motionless on top of beds, wrapped in their burqua, unwilling to speak, eat, or do anything, but slowly wasting away. Others have gone mad and were seen crouched in corners, perpetually rocking or crying, most of them in fear. One doctor is considering, when what little medication that is left finally runs out, leaving these women in front of the president's residence as a form of peaceful protest. It is at the point where the term 'human rights violations' has become an understatement. Husbands have the power of life and death over their women relatives, especially their wives, but an angry mob has just as much right to stone or beat a woman, often to death, for exposing an inch of flesh or offending them in the slightest way. David Cornwell has said that those in the West should not judge the Afghan people for such treatment because it is a 'cultural thing', but this is not even true. Women enjoyed relative freedom, to work, dress generally as they wanted, and drive and appear in public alone until only 1996 - the rapidity of this transition is the main reason for the depression and suicide; women who were once educators or doctors or simply used to basic human freedoms are now severely restricted and treated as sub-human in the same of right-wing fundamentalist Islam. It is not their tradition or 'culture', but is alien to them, and it is extreme even for those cultures where fundamentalism is the rule. Besides, if we could excuse everything on cultural grounds, then we should not be appalled that the Carthaginians sacrificed their infant children, that little girls are circumcised in parts of Africa, that blacks in the US deep south in the 1930's were lynched, prohibited from voting, and forced to submit to unjust Jim Crow laws. Everyone has a right to a tolerable human existence, even if they are women in a Muslim country in a part of the world that Westerners may not understand. If Iife can threaten military force in Kosovo in the name of human rights for the sake of ethnic Albanians, then NATO and the West can certainly express peaceful outrage at the oppression, murder and injustice committed against women by theTaliban. STATEMENT:In signing this, we agree that the current treatment of women in Afghanistan is completely UNACCEPTABLE and deserves support and action by the people of the United Nations and that the current situation in Afghanistan will not be tolerated. Women's Rights is not a small issue anywhere and it is UNACCEPTABLE for women in 1999 to be treated as sub-human and so much as property. Equality and human decency is a RIGHT not a freedom, whether one lives in Afghanistan or anywhere else.

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When asked “What is a contingent fee?” a lawyer answered, “A contingent fee to a lawyer means, if I don’t win your suit, I get nothing. If I do win it, you get nothing.”

These writings were totally incomprehensible until one scholar discovered the key. Many of the words in the inscriptions were names of regions, cities or kings. This key allowed the scholars to unlock the secrets of the Hittite empire. Some of the important names were the following: Regions: Khamatu, Palaa. Cities: Kurkuma, Tuvarnava. Kings: Varpalava, Tarkumuva. The following are the inscriptions that correspond to these names. Your job is to match each inscription with the name that it represents. The process you use to solve this puzzle is very similar to what archeological linguists actually do when they discover writings and inscriptions in unknown languages.

Nuestro calor esta derritiendo las lineas de telefonos.
Our heat is melting the telephone lines
 
¿Puedo ayudarte a quitártelo?
"May I help you take it off?"

Bower & Clark (1969) instructed persons to study lists containing ten words each by forming stories, where all of these words were appearing... The story building group remembered 93% of the words while an other group, which used the same amount of time for learning without story building, was able to remember 13% of the words only.

In a language where gender is important, a very elegant method of remembering this is to divide your town into two main zones where the gender is only masculine and feminine, or three where there is a neutral gender. This division can be by busy roads, rivers, etc. To fix the gender of a noun, simply associate its image with a place in the correct part of town. This makes remembering genders so easy!

• ¡Spanish Pronto! is a cool little quick-reference site for Spanish.
• babelfish.altavista.com is kind of clunky, but it can help when you need to get the gist of a word or sentence.
• TravLang has some cool stuff (for many languages), including a Spanish Resource Page, and lots of dictionaries.
• I'm finding most of this stuff through the Spanish and Learning Spanish directories at dmoz.org.
• There's a Perl/C program (with web interface) called Compujaga that conjugates spanish verbs.
• Email Amigos hooks people learning spanish up with penpals trying to learn english (and vice versa).
• Yahoo! Espana
• CNN en Espanol
• Lucent/Bell Labs has a Spanish speech synthesizer.. which gives me an idea... muahahaha... :)

Let us take a look in the school yard. Which pupils do have the most serious emotional problems; the extrovert, noisy pupils, or the withdrawn, quiet ones?
 
In the epicrises of young patients in psychiatric hospitals we often find a history of abnormal silence or withdrawal, and it is supposed that this may be an early sign of a mental disease under development. Until now nobody have dared to suggest that the causality maybe can be reversed - that vocal silence may be the reason for,- or at least the initiating factor for the illness. The hypothesis is this : A certain amount of vibrations from vocalisation (and/or Vibroacoustic stimulation) is necessary in order to keep the brain functioning normally.

The usenet users instantly debunked the site as a spoof. I didn’t think much of it and went about my daily affairs. I checked on the web sites traffic the next day, wondering if much of anybody had been to the site yet. Not only had they been there, but traffic appeared to be growing extremely rapidly. On the first full day of operation the site had more that 4,200 distinct user sessions averaging 6 minutes each. I felt like I was one of those scientists in the movies who was witnessing a plague that was spreading out of control.

I'm just trying to learn to walk and talk again and..I see a line of press and media knowing they have deadlines. I see kids who want to talk about sharks and I see Customs, Immigration and Quarantine making their way to front of the line. "Where's your passport?". "How many kilos of coffee do you have aboard?". "Flowers?" "Woodcarvings?" "Plants?"... "What's your address and phone number?"...I would just stare like they were speaking a foreign language. Months at sea and my brain can't even get around the fact that there is person in front of me and they want to know what ingredients are in protein drink mix. A long process, but we did it...I pulled out every tin can, food pack, canister and believe it or not...they would read the ingredients. "You have creseten in this." she would say. "Oh, really." I would mumble. "What's creseten?" Half my food goods got thrown away.

Last year Rigos turned down an offer from William Gross' Idealab, an incubator for Web startups, to make the right introductions in return for 49% of the company. Rigos thought he could expand the company on his own over time without giving away all that equity. "That's way old-school," he says. "The new school says be big as fast as you can."

They also built bridges across huge chasms using nothing but grass - a practice still carried out today by their descendants.

I checked out the NOVA website. Apparently, they redo it for each set of episodes. The archived version for the Inca episode is part of a series called Secrets of Lost Empires.

The cool thing about this site is that it's designed for teachers. Check out the teachers guide for this series:

Investigating Cable Design
Students can try constructing suspension cables out of strips of newspaper in the Hang in There! activity. Organize students into small groups and distribute copies of the activity sheet and a set of materials to each group. Encourage students to look at the weave in samples of thread, string, yarn, and rope as they investigate ways to increase the weight-bearing strength of newspaper strips. Provide students with weights or washers to test simple cables. As the amount of weight the cables can sustain increases, students can suspend heavier objects, such as books. When twisting or braiding strips, students might want to staple or tape the ends together. Ask students how the staples or tape might affect the strength of the newspaper and have them think of ways to combine newspaper strips without these materials.

A little while ago, we made up these cards. They create a chain of generous acts, in sort of a chain-letter fashion.
 
How do you use them? You do something good for someone, and you do it anonymously. For example, you could pay the toll of the car behind you at a tollbooth. One thing we've done is go to this wonderful bakery, and buy a treat for the next person who walks in the door after we leave.

(via pyrAlert!)

That evening, both the late JFK Jr. and Kathleen Soliah were once again the subjects of LIVE coverage, as content-mining on these two over-reported stories continued unabated. The JFK Jr. coverage, on KSTP’s 6 p.m. newscast--broadcast LIVE from Sunset Memorial Tower in St.Anthony--provided the first opportunity for the Cursor supporter to become part of the story. Viewers saw him flash the Cursor Web site address behind the reporter and then discreetly make his exit, careful to be less disruptive of the proceedings than the television crews were.

Station executives, not used to viewers taking advantage of the public space behind LIVE stand-ups to advance their own causes, were reportedly considering ways to combat the new threat to their remote broadcasts.

Imagine Stever Robbins [true story] who consistently makes lousy job decisions, because he's so afraid of the impact of a wrong decision that he gets stressed out when making the choice. An NLP approach might take a couple of tacks:
(a) teach him an explicit strategy for making job decisions and have him rehearse that, even when stressed, so he at least performs well under stress
(b) teach him to put himself in a really good frame of mind and hold the good feelings while thinking about the job decision.

I tried (a) and it didn't work. The stress always overwhelmed me. But then I started going for (b), and discovered that once I'm in a resourceful state, it's much easier to keep myself there. Then I automatically had access to a better quality of decision making.

One of their coolest features is this interactive tool to help you create a Business Plan. The tool steps you through these topics:

• Executive Summary
• Objectives
• Mission
• Keys to Success
• Market Analysis
• Market Analysis Charts
• Break-even Tables
• Break-even Charts
• Conclusion/Assessment

It's very generic, and doesn't really fit the business I want to start, but it does give me some things to start thinking about.

The privacy agreement says that it's not monitored and will not be disclosed unless the feds come knocking.

(via pyrAlert)

If you have never read (or heard of) this story, I urge you to take the time to read it. It is WELL worth the read.

I found it. I saw it with my own eyes, and thereby I am convinced that I have a useful purpose in life--overseas investigator for the anthropological whims of my sister. That, in any case, is better than boredom. I have no desire to return home; I will not go into any further explanations or reasons. I am neurotic, unsettled and adrift. I got my discharge in Karachi, as you know. I am very happy to be an ex-GI and a tourist, but it took me only a few weeks to become bored to distraction. So I was quite pleased to have a mission from you. The mission is completed.

Since .. external factors have such an impact on our ideas of successful living, we are making the trip across the country to see how different the views of each geographical area are. We hope to show that different viewpoints and lifestyles can be supported in different areas. Perhaps the type of lifestyle someone may dream about in New York City can be had with a simple move out west, or vice versa. Perhaps your view of what successful living is may seem crazy where you live, but may be perfectly normal elsewhere in the country.

How do you become semi-retired by the age of 25? By not having to have everything, not worrying if I have $150,000 in the bank, that's how. For the things I wanted to do, like going out to shoot big game, I knew I could physically do it at 25, or 35, or now, but you don't know if you'll get the chance to do it later because you could die tomorrow. As long as it doesn't take away from the family or anything like that, if you can afford to do it and you have the time, do it. There's no doubt in my mind that you'll damn sure regret it if you don't. Nobody says when they're dying, "Wow I wish I would have worked harder." When you're born you should play and have fun until about 50, then you should have to go to work. My wife says, "Have dessert first, because life is so uncertain."

We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people. The kind of lying that is most deadly is withholding...

The chimp, called Panbanisha, has a vocabulary of 3,000 words and talks through a computer that produces a synthetic voice as she presses symbols on a keyboard.

The animals use a specially designed keypad with about 400 keys, each bearing a symbol. Some symbols have simple meanings such as "apple"; others represent more abstract concepts such as "give me", "good", "bad" or "help".

The animals have to learn all the symbols and then construct sentences by pressing keys in the right order. The computer speaks the words and flashes them up on a screen. Recently Panbanisha, 14, has started writing words on the floor using chalk - apparently learning letters from the computer screens.

Duane Rumbaugh, the university's professor of psychology and biology, who is director of the centre, said tests suggested the animals had the language and cognitive skills of a four-year-old child.

...only a very small percentage of people have figured out how to actually make time management work. For us even when we received training in one of these "Time management systems." it ends up no better than an expensive and stylish paper weight. Why doesn't time management work for most of us? Is there something wrong with the systems? or us?

According to the article, the problem is the "Approach": ...However, from our understanding of metastates..."The metastate (high level values) are built from primary experiences (tasks and habits)." That is to say, the things I do over time become the foundational basis of values that I have. We are the sum total of our experiences. When you take the "Top Down" approach, whatever word you chose to represent a value tends to be disassociated from your experience since you never went through the experience of creating the value.

What do you think?

Here is the rest of the article - Time Management

In Austin, home to one of the company's major research sites, more than 300 summer workers created their own imaginary companies with unlimited money. The companies were to launch next year and to continue through 2025, with a global Depression thrown in for fun.

It's ``fantasy startup camp'' for the interns, and a way for IBM to open its gates to new ideas while putting out feelers for potential hires.

Can you name any one of the dozens of Internet booksellers that were in business before Jeff Bezos made his first sale? You probably can't, because they didn't aim to be anything other than small digital bookstores. They failed to innovate, and they disappeared.

Instead of releasing a lot of features in a product, which just increases the odds that you'll have customer-service problems, release a small feature set to get as many customers as possible... A small feature set also means you'll get it out sooner with greater speed, another critical tool of startup success.

Historically, startups looked at patents to protect their marketplace, but on the Internet, people evade such barriers by simply deciding not to buy. Do the math: You'd rather have 5 million customers paying you $1 for your value than 50,000 paying $100. If they both wind up being worth $5 million in revenue, the former is worth far more than the latter, because you can do a lot more with 5 million customers than just 50,000.

Every document you've ever created or received stretches before you in a time-ordered stream, reaching from right now backward to the date you were born. You can sit back and watch new documents arrive: they're plunked down at the head of the stream. You browse the stream by running your cursor down it - touch a document in the display and it pops out far enough for you to glance at its contents. You can go back in time or go to the future and see what you're supposed to be doing next week or next decade.

Hydro believes that it can help employees find a better balance by redesigning physical work spaces -- and by redesigning work itself. It can free people from old restrictions on where and when they work. That flexibility makes workers more productive and jobs more appealing, and more appealing jobs attract more talented people.

The Foresight Exchange (FX) is an implementation of Robin Hanson's Idea Futures concept: a market in which people invest for and against claims about future events. This article gives an introduction to Idea Futures, then describes the Foresight Exchange's architecture and features at a high-level..

Hal Finney argued that the "50 cent bias", if it really existed, might not be a true bias at all, but instead a reflection of market uncertainty. To further characterize the phenomenon, Hal proposed the CRAK claim, which is to be judged true if any of six "crackpot" (i.e., very unlikely) claims comes true.

A player's score increases as a result of good trading: buying low and selling high. To boost your score, it's possible to create multiple accounts, or collude with other players, in order to transfer wealth between accounts. The easiest way to do this is to pick a claim with few booked orders and have the accounts trade in it. For example the "sacrificial" account(s) sell shares at a low price to the "blessed" account, then buy the shares back at a higher price, thus transferring money to that account.

• Believe in your own professional judgments.
• Be aggressive, and do not fear being wrong.
• It is better to be mistaken than to be wrong.
• Avoid mirror imaging at all costs.
• Intelligence is of no value if it is not disseminated.
• Coordination is necessary, but do not settle for the least common denominator.
• When everyone agrees on an issue, something probably is wrong.
• The consumer does not care how much you know, just tell him what is important.
• Form is never more important than substance.
• Aggressively pursue collection of information you need.
• Do not take the editing process too seriously.
• Know your Community counterparts and talk to them frequently.
• Never let your career take precedence over your job.
• Being an intelligence analyst is not a popularity contest.
• Do not take your job-or yourself-too seriously.

So I made notebooks, 30 pages of 20 lines each, with the specific affirmation on the top of each page. I approached friends and co-workers and asked if they would like to do an experiment that I was told would double their income. Everyone I asked said yes, but, astonishingly, only a handful went the entire 30 days without skipping a day.

The results of that "experiment" convinced me that the sentence DOES affect one's income.

If you are someone, or know someone who:

• stays genuinely calm when confronted by an angry person;
• can tell me of a time when you handled a violent or potentially violent person in a way that left you both feeling positive about something; or
• ever were violent or very angry yourself, and someone intervened in a way you appreciated;

please e-mail me. I want to know all about it.

Everyone knows that centrifugal force can overcome gravity. If directed upward, centrifugal force can be used to drive an antigravity engine. The problem engineers have been unable to solve is that centrifugal force is generated in all directions on the plane of the centrifuge. It won't provide locomotion unless the force can be concentrated in one direction. The solution of the sling, of releasing the wheeling at the instant the centrifugal force is directed along the ballistic trajectory, has all the inefficiencies of a cannon. The difficulty of the problem is not real, however. There is a mental block preventing people from perceiving a centrifuge as anything other than a flywheel.

Obe Wan Kenobi’s ability to confuse the Imperial Storm Trooper by merely tossing a few short words may be an oversimplification of what Barron calls "indirect suggestions". "The founder of modern hypnotherapy, Dr. Milton Erickson was a master of this." According to Barron, "He was able to give suggestions to people without them being aware of it and get incredibly effective results."

Just close your eyelids and let your mind drift where it will.

You are aware of everything, and yet you are not aware. You are listening with your subconscious mind, while your conscious mind is far away, and not listening. Your conscious mind is far away, and not listening. Your subconscious mind is awake, and listening, and hearing everything while your conscious mind remains very relaxed and peaceful. You can relax peacefully because your subconscious mind is taking charge, and when this happens, you close your eyes and let your subconscious do all the listening. Your subconscious mind knows, and because your subconscious mind knows, your conscious mind does not need to know and can stay asleep, and not mind while your subconscious mind stays wide awake.

You have much potential in your subconscious mind which you don't have in your conscious mind. You can remember everything that has happened with your subconscious mind, but you cannot remember everything with your conscious mind. You can forget so easily, and with forgetting certain things you can remember other things. Remembering what you need to remember, and forgetting what you can forget. It does not matter if you forget, you need not remember what you can forget. Your subconscious mind remembers everything that you need to know and you can let your subconscious mind listen and remember while your conscious mind sleeps and forgets. Keep your eyes closed, and listen with your subconscious mind, and when you're listening very, very carefully, your conscious mind will not mind what it forgets, because your subconscious mind will remember what it has forgotten.

As you continue to listen to me, with your subconscious mind, your conscious mind sleeps deeper and deeper, and deeper, and deeper. Let your conscious mind stay deeply asleep, and let your subconscious mind listen to me.

(Repeat. Begin at paragraph two)

The purpose of a pizza box is to keep the pizza warm, and the obvious solution is to create a closed, insulated container. In a completely closed container, however, a hot pizza will get soggy. In order to keep the pizza dry, you could put holes in the top of the pizza box, but then the pizza will get cold. This is a contradiction. We want the pizza to be hot and dry, but the ideal solution for a hot pizza will make the pizza wet, and the ideal solution for a dry pizza will make the pizza cold.

The tendency was to try to solve this problem by building a better box, perhaps to invent a new composite material that acted both as an insulator and as a water absorber. But the ultimate solution to the problem was incredibly simple. In a closed pizza box, the vapor condenses on the bottom of the box, which makes the pizza soggy. So to prevent the pizza from becoming soggy, one simply had to come up with a way to raise the pizza off the bottom of the box. The jagged piece of plastic below every delivered pizza does just that.

Here's a mini-trampoline article (with exercises) from positiveheatlh.com.

The measure of the force of gravity affecting your body at rest is 1g. Speedy motion in a horizontal plane, or a change of position in a vertical direction increases the G-Force acting on the body. At the top of each bounce when the G-force is non-existent, your body momentarily experiences weightlessness. Depressing the bouncer mat, the pull of the G-force is increased at least twice. This repetitive change in G-force creates ideal conditions to strengthen all body cells simultaneously.

The fun really starts when you master the skills, and feel creatively free to experiment by merging techniques into patterns. Although simplicity is the key, it’s surprising how quickly progress takes place. No more than 8 repetitions of any one technique is performed within a routine. Music largely determines the beat.

This article is written in praise of Satan, Lucifer, the Devil, or whatever you want to call him. I must first make it clear that I am not here claiming ontological status for the Devil; that is, I am not claiming that he exists in the sense that you and I exist. I am quite serious on a symbolic level in what I write but my statements praising the Devil and attacking Christianity, God, and Jesus are not to taken as implying the real existence of any of these supposed beings. The only one of these that I think one could reasonably believe actually existed is Jesus. It seems probable that there was a human being who was a political and religious leader at the time though it seems to me to be absurd to believe claims about his origin or divine nature. My praise of the Devil is not entirely (though it is mostly) serious, and it is to be taken on a purely symbolic level. My goal is to bring out the values and perspective of the Christian tradition and to demonstrate how it is fundamentally at odds with the values held by myself and all extropians and with the perspective that we share.

The Devil - Lucifer - is a force for good (where I define 'good' simply as that which I value, not wanting to imply any universal validity or necessity to the orientation). 'Lucifer' means 'light-bringer' and this should begin to clue us in to his symbolic importance. The story is that God threw Lucifer out of Heaven because Lucifer had started to question God and was spreading dissension among the angels. We must remember that this story is told from the point of view of the Godists (if I may coin a term) and not from that of the Luciferians (I will use this term to distinguish us from the official Satanists with whom I have fundamental differences). The truth may just as easily be that Lucifer resigned from heaven.

A lie is defined by the Christian as anything which contradicts the Word of God - as told to us by the Bible and God's representatives on Earth. If we accept this definition of a lie then we should praise lies. A "lie" is then a questioning of blind dogma.

I’m amazed at the number of people who seem to think I’m a Satanist. If you are a Satanist, please don’t write to me in support. I find Satanism even more silly than Christianity. The former includes most of the irrational beliefs of the latter, but adds an adolescent need to rebel or shock.

You may get the idea that I’m completely anti-religious, or at least completely anti-Christianity. Any religion is a complex mixture of ideas, values, and beliefs. It would be absurd to declare myself totally against such a complex. What I despise in religion is the underlying way of thinking: irrational faith,

ELIZA emulates a Rogerian psychotherapist.

ELIZA has almost no intelligence whatsoever, only tricks like string substitution and canned responses based on keywords. Yet when the original ELIZA first appeared in the 60's, some people actually mistook her for human. The illusion of intelligence works best, however, if you limit your conversation to talking about yourself and your life.

.. society could easily degenerate into emphasizing formal degrees rather than performance capacity. It could fall prey to sterile Confucian mandarins--a danger to which the American university is singularly susceptible. On the other hand, it could overvalue immediately usable, "practical" knowledge and underrate the importance of fundamentals, and of wisdom altogether.

There is a great deal of talk these days about "teams" and "teamwork." Most of it starts out with the wrong assumption--namely, that we have never before worked in teams.

Perhaps more important, in the knowledge society the employees--that is, knowledge workers--own the tools of production. ... Without that knowledge the machines, no matter how advanced and sophisticated, are unproductive.

It is less than fifty years, I believe, since we first talked in the United States of the two sectors of a modern society--the "public sector" (government) and the "private sector" (business). In the past twenty years the United States has begun to talk of a third sector, the "nonprofit sector"--those organizations that increasingly take care of the social challenges of a modern society.

I've been looking for some good chest exercises for a while now::

Push-ups are about the most convenient way there is to build up your chest, not to mention your shoulders, arms and upper back. Here are five variations that you can do anywhere, anytime.

Chair Dips: Place two benches or chairs of equal seat height shoulder-width apart. Kneel behind them, place one hand flat on each seat, and extend your legs behind you so your weight is evenly supported by your arms and feet. Lower your upper body just below the level of the seats, or as low as you can without pain. Hold for a second, then raise yourself back to the starting position. Repeat.

The instant the last digit is punched, high-speed computers swing into action. Loaded with background information on one in seven U.S. households and with exhaustive data about how the company's millions of customers behave, the computers identify who is calling and predict the reason for the call. After reviewing 50 options for whom to notify, the computers pick the best option for each situation. The computers also pull and pass along about two dozen pieces of information about the person who is calling. They even predict what the caller might want to buy -- even though he or she isn't calling to buy anything -- and then they prepare the customer-service rep to sell that item, once the original reason for the call has been addressed.

As many of you know, K. walked for the first time in her 13 years on Sat. April 24. During our first intervention, a month prior, K. stood unsupported on her own two feet for the first time. K. has had CP since birth. One week prior to K.'s second intervention I informed many of you that she would take her first steps on Sat. April 24. This is often something I do to set a congruent presupposition in my own physiology as an NLP interventionist. Thus forming a congruent direction for my intervention to come.

This is something I often encounter with children her age, and I love to bring in one of the lessons of Milton Erickson here. The lesson of how the unconscious interprets the word "TRY" as implying "FAIL".So, I pulled out the old Pencil! Put the pencil on the floor, and proceeded to ask K. to "TRY AND PICK UP THE PENCIL." K. reached down and picked up the pencil. I again put the pencil on the floor, and said "NO, TRY AND PICK UP THE PENCIL." Again, K. picked up the pencil. And once again I took the pencil, and placed it on the floor. I then demonstrated to her in my comical idiosyncric way how to "TRY AND PICK UP THE PENCIL" doing everything I could to Exaggerate, and almost pick up the pencil, but not actually pick it up, because I wasn't picking up the pencil, I was "TRYING TO PICK UP THE PENCIL." I then had K. again "TRY TO PICK UP THE PENCIL," which she enjoyed very much taking on the comical role of the "TRYER." I then told K. "NOW, PICK UP THE PENCIL." She grasped the pencil ever so quickly and was greatly pleased at the results of it being so much easier to achieve.

They also have a shareware program called LifePlan:

LifePlan is a powerful 'project management' tool that helps you to create and maintain the framework of plans and goals that is vital to making a real success of your life. It provides a structured approach to setting goals in all areas of your life, starting with the big lifetime dreams, and working down through a series of shorter term plans until you reach your daily To Do list, showing the small, easy things that you should do today to move towards your lifetime goals.

It's a well-kept secret that an entire science is devoted to how people are persuaded.

Influence is a rapidly expanding field of psychological inquiry devoted to discovering the principles that determine beliefs, create attitudes, and move people to action. In other words, influence examines the process that causes humans to change

A developing phenomenon within the fast-growing marketplace of spirituality, human potential groups and counseling--is the composite nature of many new groups and/or approaches. Some of these groups/approaches incorporate and combine facets of various belief systems such as "New Age" mysticism, Eastern religious traditions, UFO beliefs, the bible, meditation, Native American beliefs--often coupled with human potential themes, therapy and/or self-help and realization. They are often led or facilitated by charismatic leaders or some situations professional counselors who may make spiritual claims in addition to their official credentials.

Three well-known examples of hybrid/composite groups are "Heaven's Gate", which included elements of UFO beliefs, mysticism and the bible; the Solar Temple of Switzerland, which was a composite of "New Age" beliefs, holistic healing and arcane Christianity and Aum of Japan, which combined Buddhism, Hindu and apocalyptic beliefs. Many composite/hybrid groups, unlike the three previously cited, are relatively benign, though somewhat unusual and present no meaningful potential danger to society.

The use of linguistic binds in the therapeutic context is well documented and researched. The use of binds in the context of persuasion and influence is not nearly in such widespread use, yet. This obviously provides those of us who make our living in the business world an opportunity to once again borrow from the therapeutic.

The "Intuition of Expertise" is "pattern dependent", that is in the detection, recognition, replication and application of pattern. The "Intuition of Genius" is "pattern independent", that is operating outside of pattern, generative. If this is true, and expertise is ‘pattern dependent’ than I would say that the art of modeling is the domain of expertise and is constrained by the limitation of pattern.

Please note that the ICQ Software, as most Internet applications, is vulnerable to various security issues and hence should be considered unsecured. By using the ICQ Software and the Internet in general, you may be subject to various risks, including among others:

• Exposure to objectionable material and/or parties, including without limitation, contaminated files.
• Unauthorized invasion of your privacy during, or as a result of, your or another's use of the system.
• Spoofing, eavesdropping, sniffing, spamming, breaking passwords, harassment, fraud, forgery, "imposturing", electronic trespassing, tampering, hacking, nuking, system contamination including without limitation use of viruses, worms and Trojan horses causing unauthorized, damaging or harmful access and/or retrieval of information and data on your computer and other forms of activity that may even be considered unlawful.
• Unauthorized exposure of information and material you listed or sent, on or through the ICQ system, to other users, the general public or any other specific entities for which the information and material was not intended by you.

If you do not wish to be subjected to these risks, you are advised not to use the ICQ Software.

Have you ever gone away on holiday without television? Then you've already done a TV Turnoff. Maybe you missed a show here or there. But you found it surprisingly easy. Pretty soon you were more involved with the things you yourself could do than you were the things people on TV pretend to do. And when you came back home, the television seemed a bit alien. You'd forgotten how it demands attention. Sitting around watching seemed less fun.

Tell stories.
Without a story, you have no company, just as a family without a story is only a collection of relatives. Aim at telling it so often — and hearing it so often from other people in your company — that it transcends story to become myth.

Lower security.
Unless you are really a defense plant requiring Defense Department clearance, stop pretending you are by asking visitors to sign in. Have you ever even once used the sign-in log? Why not just put up metal detectors and check body cavities so that you'll seem important?

Don't have 2nd class team members.
When you "outsource" knowledge work, why not assume that it's going to be a successful relationship and provide the outsourcers with as many contacts into the community as possible? Put 'em on the corporate intranet, invite them to sales conference, put their pictures and contact info into your directory.

Social entrepreneurs are people whose creativity and drive open up major new possibilities in education, health, the environment, and other areas of human need. Just as business entrepreneurs lead innovation in commerce, social entrepreneurs drive social change.

Do they have a 4th of July in England?
How many birth days does the average man have?
Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
In baseball, how many outs are there in an inning

The first Neurophone device was constructed by attaching two Brillo pads to insulated copper wires. Brillo pads are copper wire scouring pads used to clean pots and pans. They are about two inches in diameter. The Brillo pads were inserted into plastic bags that acted as insulators.

The wires from the pads were connected to a reversed audio output transformer that was attached to a hi-fi amplifier. The output voltage of the audio transformer was about 1,500 volts peak-to-peak. When the insulated pads were placed on the temples next to the eyes and the amplifier was driven by speech or music, you could 'hear' the resulting sound inside your head. The perceived sound quality was very poor, highly distorted and very weak.

All commercial digital speech recognition circuitry is based on so-called dominant frequency power analysis. While speech can be recognized by such a circuit, the truth is that speech encoding is based on time ratios. If the frequency power analysis circuits are not phased correctly, they will not work. The intelligence (sound)is carried by phase information. The frequency content of the voice gives our voice a certain quality, but frequency does not contain information. All attempts at computer voice recognition and voice generation are only partially successful. Until digital time-ratio encoding is used, our computers will never be able to really talk to us.

A public opinion poll, conducted a few years ago, showed that the number one most-fearful situation an individual could encounter is to speak to an audience. It ranked above window washing outside the 85th floor of an office building. So you can imagine the fear and tension this situation generates within the participants. Many faint, but most cope with the stress by mentally going away. They literally go into an alpha state, which automatically makes them many times as suggestible as they normally are. And another loop of the downward spiral into conversion is successfully effected.

Some human-potential movements are far too clever to ask their graduates to join anything, thus labeling themselves as a cult-but, if you look closely, you'll find that their devil is anyone and everyone who hasn't taken their training.

The insurance salesman knows his pitch is likely to be much more effective if he can get you to visualize something in your mind. This is right-brain communication. For instance, he might pause in his conversation, look slowly around your livingroom and say, "Can you just imagine this beautiful home burning to the ground?" Of course you can! It is one of your unconscious fears and, when he forces you to visualize it, you are more likely to be manipulated into signing his insurance policy.

[The hollywood sound people the author hired] found a way to psycho-acoustically modify and synthesize the suggestions so that they are projected in the same chord and frequency as the music, thus giving them the effect of being part of the music. But we found that in using this technique, there is no way to reduce various frequencies to detect the subliminals. In other words, although the suggestions are being heard by the subconscious mind, they cannot be monitored with even the most sophisticated equipment.

e-Prime means english without any form of the verb be. Because students often overlook "hidden" forms such as I'm and we're, I wrote this simple program to highlight any words that might possibly violate e-Prime.

A massive, crumbling, grey stone ediface stands before you. Wild profusions of flowers have taken root in its crags, and you see an orange-red crown imperial and an orange gladiolus spilling from a deep fissure just above your reach. The door to the tower is made of well-preserved, wine-colored wood and is decorated with delicate carvings. As some snowy-white candytuft growing by your feet catches your eye, you notice an inscription on the marble threshold of the door. The locked door would, if it were opened, lead inward to the southwest. The underbrush which faces the tower door emits a faint glow. Swinburne (dead) is dangling, grotesquely, from a noose tied to an overhanging treebranch. A little torch is fixed into the wall of the tower, and it burns with a pale light.

[W]hat I'm trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible -- is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we're being manipulated and exploited.

[W]e've created not one, but two alien languages, which will be untranslated signs in the show. One will be relatively easy to decipher, if you care about that stuff; the other one, we think, will be a little harder. That's for the fans.

When a few small, high contrast shapes are briefly spattered over a picture, like mudsplashes on a car windshield, very large changes can simultaneously be made in the scene without these being noticed. This occurs even when the mudsplashes do not in any way cover or obscure the changes. The phenomenon is important in driving, surveillance or navigation, since it shows that possibly dangerous events occurring in full view may go unnoticed if they coincide with even very small, apparently innocuous disturbances. The phenomenon is also of theoretical importance in understanding the way the brain represents the visual world.

Mission: Critical is an interactive tutorial for critical thinking, in which you will be introduced to basic concepts through sets of instructions and exercises. Formal instructional materials have been kept to a minimum, in order to take advantage of Mission: Critical's interactive format. Through immediate reinforcement for right and wrong answers to a series of increasingly complex exercises, you will begin to utilize the essential tools of intellectual analysis.

One Witness was particularly insistent that my web site was full of lies and half-truths. This prompted me to ask the question:

"Did you actually read the articles?"

His answer was interesting:

"I don't have to read the articles. I know they're full of lies."

There was a podium with two flags on it, an American flag and a California state flag. I walked up -- it was very quiet -- and as I was walking up there it came to me, I don't know from where. I grabbed the American flag and I crinkled it in my hand. I looked at it and sort of gave it a little toss back against the wall and said, 'I remember when Betsy Ross made that flag. Today it's made in Japan.' Well, a roar went up as that struck a chord in those workers, and I was God from that moment on.

This list is to those who want to share their experience with Desing Human Engineering. I encourage you to post any experience, question, etc. To subscribe send a blank e-mail to: dhe-subscribe@egroups.com

Hotmail is the largest email provider in Sweden and India despite the fact that they have done no marketing of any sort in these countries. It's a happy day when you discover your business has displaced several entrenched competitors to become the market share leader in a country you have never visited.

"The only live work I had to do was talk to the anchorman at the end of my story for 15 seconds." He paused again at this point remembering: "And I woke up every morning scared about that 15 seconds."

Orkin and Berdis persisted, hoping to discover some extraordinary feature. Finally someone said, “There is something. It’s really not much, but our calculator has little rubber pads on the bottom.”
 
At last Orkin and Berdis had found their unique selling point. Soon a commercial was on the air about the calculator with “little rubber feet.” And the client needed a calculator to count the sales.

Shoulder Circles

• Stand tall with good posture.
• Raise your right shoulder towards your right ear, take it backwards, down and then up again with a smooth rhythm.
• Perform this shoulder circling movement eight times, then repeat with the other shoulder.
• Breathe easily throughout.

An outcome is a specific, sensory-based goal. For example, “my desired outcome is to have $1,000 in the bank.” A direction is a process-based goal. For example, “my desired direction is to seek out opportunities that meet my values while being profitable.”

Today, we know that the question "why" is welded to the Aristotelian system. At the core of the Aristotelian system are Cause and Effect. Cause and Effect is cemented to "why." Given that Cause and Effect are semantically ill-formed, then "why" is necessarily also semantically ill-formed! In turn, the entire Aristotelian system is logically also semantically ill-formed.

king doesn't address the content of the beast - it has eyes on stalks and reminds roland of a lobster, but that's about it.. What king DOES give are submodalities..

[T]here are a plethora of interviews with [King], both on-line and off-line, in which he talks about the way he generates ideas, expands the ideas into full-blown stories, and actually writes the stories. He is also quite articulate in terms of describing his internal states.

Time-line: a metaphor describing how we store our sights, sounds and sensations of memories and imagines, a way of coding and processing the construct "time."

"I was so pumped by Billy's attitude and how fun the tapes are, that I did a second workout that same night."
Taebobabe [Tae-Bo Message Boards]

Believe it or not, this daily contact gives you an opportunity to heal your pain quicker than those who aren¹t forced to face their unresolved feelings‹and inevitably make the same mistakes again and again. How? Before you get to work each day, take a few minutes for this "feeling letter" exercise: express to her, in this order, your feelings of anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow. Then express your feeling of forgiveness and love and understanding. As a result, each day, one layer of your hurt will be healed, until you no longer feel it. You¹ll also be ready to find the right person for you.

We have developed a special area we call the "Xplore Zone" where you will find information presented in a sales free environment. If you see anything you are interested in purchasing you can link back to the catalog. The Xplore Zone also offers links to related sites on the World Wide Web and more.

Modeling is the process of taking a complex event or phenomenon and breaking it into small enough chunks so that it can be recapitulated or applied in some way. Behavioral modeling involves observing and mapping the successful processes which underlie an exceptional performance of some type. The purpose of behavior modeling is to create a pragmatic map or ‘model’ of a particular behavior which can be used to reproduce or simulate some aspect of that performance by anyone who is motivated to do so.

Since what we have to offer deals with the most fundamental assumptions we know of, and since the way in which the people of our culture operate manifestly does NOT work well, the question becomes how to change the assumptions of an entire culture. We feel the time has come to do everything within our power (including starting this Website) to share with our fellow humans as much as we can of what we have figured out on this topic thus far. From this page you can gain access to our findings. The resources we provide include hypertext links to pages on which we give the outlines of our frame of reference; a site map which lists every page on this Website; a body of tutorials of graduated complexity designed for serious students; along with an annotated index of our research papers, with links to most of the 90+ papers themselves, by which we make them available for downloading and further study.

Korzybski's devices were designed to encourage people to delay their immediate reactions while they searched for the unique characteristics of a situation and alternative interpretations. He was trying to link science-mathematical methods with sanity.

PCM MindWave uses waveforms instead of simple blinking (this is what other Mind-Machines normally do). This results in totally different sensations because of the very smooth stimulation of the eyes. Especially very low frequencies ( Another new feature is the possibility for phase shifting. Ordinary L/S machines provide 0 Degrees phase shift (FOCUS, both eyes synchronized) or 180 Degrees (EXPAND, both eyes alternating). PCM MindWave allows any continously moving phase shift between 0-360 Degrees.

The ability to interpolate waveforms and phase shift smoothly (and all the other parameters as well) results in *exciting* new and unique light patterns: You will see chessboards, kaleidoscopes, landscapes, grids, flowers, tunnels and may other visual illusions!

:NAME
say	hi! what's your name?
get	$name
say	hello, $name

Hocus came first; he was meant to be a conversational bot that picks up speech patters by observing the channel. People started complaining about him, though, as he wasn't turning out to be so much of a repository for transient questions as he was a playtoy for people to amuse themselves with. Some people got impatient with the childlike joys others had in poking and prodding it.

Then, Url was born, to be an information bot. Armed with husky front-end crap filters, his task was to accumulate knowledge about where things are on the World Wide Web. His basic goals have expanded a little to include other information (such as Macintosh error codes, network suffixes, some common acronyms, and so on), but he is still observing #macintosh and learning from it.

Spatial audio is an important stylistic property for aural presentation. It provides a natural way to tell several voices apart, as in real life (people rarely all stand in the same spot in a room). Stereo speakers produce a lateral sound stage. Binaural headphones or the increasingly popular 5-speaker home theater setups can generate full surround sound, and multi-speaker setups can create a true three-dimensional sound stage. VRML 2.0 also includes spatial audio, which implies that in time consumer-priced spatial audio hardware will become more widely available.

Project OpenMind aims to provide free, high quality information and products about NLP and hypnosis.